Huh I did not know Roku (the on-the-way-out TV company) made their own scripting language. How bizarre.

Wait so what would you have to do if you were covered by the CRA? The article mentions limited reporting & policy requirements for “open source stewards”. I’m curious what the requirements are for full on commercial entities though.

Has anyone used Jujutsu and Sapling? Which is better?

Pretty disappointing that some people think this is acceptable behaviour.

At least it’s still very obviously “AI slop” as they put it. If ChatGPT ever stops its distinctive patronising waffle it’s going to be much more annoying to filter out.

Most people don’t realise this but it says “what we’re looking for” not “our minimum requirements”. And even when they do say they are minimum requirements, they aren’t really.

Whoever gets this job is absolutely not going to have all this. You can still apply.

That said it doesn’t seem totally unreasonable. I have used all those languages and have at least medium understanding of them (haven’t written any Go or Java for a while).

I’ve used MySQL and Postgresql, and Mongo mercifully briefly.

I’ve used some of the AWS stuff. Enough to bullshit about the rest.

I haven’t ever really designed a fault tolerant scalable system but I could definitely bullshit about it.

You don’t need to get 100%.

Yeah I didn’t mean to imply systemd wasn’t suitable for professional use, rather that shepherd is only going to be used by people who want to set this up themselves programmatically.

Like how the average computer user is never going to use Nix to install Firefox or whatever.

Ah right so sherperd is designed for developers and professional sysadmins, and systemd is something that “normal” users (e.g. Ubuntu users) might use?

It’s a Settlers 2 clone. It’s deliberate.

Rust async has quite a lot of footguns that other async runtimes don’t have. There are some listed here:

• https://www.qovery.com/blog/common-mistakes-with-rust-async/
• https://google.github.io/comprehensive-rust/concurrency/async-pitfalls.html
• https://bitbashing.io/async-rust.html
• https://carllerche.com/2021/06/17/six-ways-to-make-async-rust-easier/

Honestly if you’re using an async Rust web framework (which they pretty much all are) it may be the path of least resistance to still use async. But in general I would strongly prefer scoped threads, channels, rayon etc.

many simultaneous requests

Unlikely to be so many that threads would be an issue.

Have a go on your free time and see if you like it. There is an absolute ton of free learning material online. You don’t need to pay anyone.

Most programming jobs (e.g. making web sites) are easy enough for the average person to do, but I think most people would find programming far too tedious and boring to learn.

It’s like law - there’s nothing particularly difficult about it but most people find it incredibly mind numbing to read legal documents.

So I would have a go in your free time first to make sure it is something you could do.

I would say:

1. Avoid async if you can. It’s way more difficult and error prone than non-async Rust. Unfortunately a lot of web stuff insists on async.
2. Don’t be afraid to .clone() stuff to fix lifetime errors. It’s not optimal but consider that in C++ everything is pretty much cloned by default, and nobody ever said C++ was slow.
3. Use anyhow::Result for error handling. It’s the easiest option.

Where’s the code that doesn’t quote this properly? I’m guessing it’s Bash.

They’re saying it’s a code editor and an IDE.

lol it doesn’t have testing or debugging by default!

So the fact that they’ve designed it with an extensible architecture somehow makes it not an IDE? That doesn’t make any sense at all.

I guess Eclipse isn’t an IDE either then?

They didn’t have that originally

They added it within 4 months of launch.

they added it because of people like you that are arguing that it’s an IDE when it clearly isn’t.

They added text saying it is an IDE because they didn’t want people to think it is an IDE? I think you’ve misunderstood.

It’s a text editor with code highlighting, fast search, and an understanding of different languages…

And integrated debugging, testing, refactoring, … Why exactly do you think it is not an IDE?

MS even clarified that it’s not an IDE

Microsoft doesn’t get to define what an IDE is. Also… I actually reread what they said and the implicitly say it is an IDE (and a “code editor” which is a fairly meaningless term):

Visual Studio Code is a streamlined code editor with support for development operations like debugging, task running, and version control. It aims to provide just the tools a developer needs for a quick code-build-debug cycle and leaves more complex workflows to fuller featured IDEs, such as Visual Studio IDE.

“to fuller featured IDEs”, not “to IDEs”.

Yes in some ways it is not a beginner friendly IDE. I would also point to launch.json as being a right arse.

Still an IDE though.

VSCode is absolutely an IDE. It is full of IDE features. The idea that it isn’t an IDE is one of those weird memes that won’t die, like people saying “an historic occasion”.

I wonder what criteria he has for considering Rust to be a success. Everyone stops writing C++ overnight? Obviously stupid.

Rust is a massive success. This guy is just impatient. Rust is better than C++ in the same way ARM is better than x86. Intel is still alive but would you invest?

Ok first impressions:

1. Rotate is Shift-Right-Click?? Very weird default choice. Most programs use middle-click.
2. I created a simple sketch with a couple of slots. Surprisingly smooth! Vastly improved from when I last tried it. Still not quite as good as SolveSpace for sketch creation, but to be fair SolveSpace was originally created to demo of a state of the art sketch solver… I couldn’t find the Dimension tool, but guessed the shortcut was D, which was correct.
3. Extrude is misnamed as “Pad”. Why?
4. Clone icon is a sheep :-D - actually the icons are all pretty great.
5. Cut is called “Pocket”?? Actually the icon for this is not great. Minor issue though.

I only made a very simple part, but I am impressed. This is significantly better than when I last tried it, when it basically didn’t work at all. I haven’t tried assemblies or anything complex (e.g. extruding up to a non-flat surface, degenerate geometry etc.), but definitely for simple tasks you could use it.

I tried FreeCAD years ago and it sucked balls. The best FOSS CAD software that I currently know of is SolveSpace.

However it has been a few years. Maybe they discovered UX… I will give it another try and report back!